Athletics. Jacobs is there: 9’99 windy in Savona on drums. At 5.45 pm the final

Marcell Jacobs is there. In Savona, in the first outing of the 100 of which he is Olympic champion, he printed a 9 ”99 in battery, with the wind slightly above the limit (+2.3). Jacobs hadn’t competed in the distance in 289 days, since he won the 100th at the Tokyo Games on 1 August 2021. He was expected to return to Nairobi on 7 May, but he had had to forfeit due to a gastroenteritis that had forced him too to two nights in hospital. There were doubts about his participation in the meeting in Savona, where from programs he should have played the 200. Having partially recovered his condition, it was decided to turn to 100. “I’m fine – Jacobs told Rai microphones immediately after the drums – , at 60 meters I felt that I was losing the race a bit, so I decided to give up to avoid problems. Maybe in the first part I stayed down, I was not very loose. The tension is broken, we hope to run faster in the final ”. In the second heat (wind +1.3), best time for the Ivorian Arthur Cissé in 10 ”19. At the start also two other Italian Olympians with the 4x100m, the Sardinian Lorenzo Patta third who signed a 10 ”19 and Fausto Desalu, fourth in 10” 21. At 5.45 pm the final, live on RaiSport.